“As a Sovereign Agentic Operating System (OS) company that provides complete integration of data sovereignty and artificial intelligence (AI) execution environments, we will vigorously open Hancom's new 36 years.”
Kim Yeon-soo, CEO of Hancom Inc. (hereinafter referred to as Hancom), declared a transition into a 'Sovereign Agentic OS' company and said this at a strategy press conference held at the Fairmont Ambassador Seoul in Yeouido on the 19th. Hancom aims to leap forward as a global agentic OS company that oversees and coordinates the operation of AI agents.
“Today's venue is not just a place for announcing financial results or introducing new products, but a place to declare Hancom's new identity,” Kim emphasized. “Hancom has already proven its AI business performance in numbers, and based on this, we are challenging a higher vision called Sovereign Agentic OS,” she said.
Sovereign Agentic OS is an integrated AI agent operating platform that connects and controls internal organizational data, external AI models, existing business systems, and permission systems in one secure environment. Hancom explained that the market growth potential is high, estimating that the size of the global serviceable addressable market (SAM) for Sovereign Agentic OS will reach about $7 billion to $10 billion (about 10 trillion to 14 trillion won) in 2030.
Hancom is developing the Sovereign Agentic OS with the goal of an official launch in the first half of next year. It plans to release a beta version first in June this year.
In particular, the strategy is to preoccupy the market based on four core strengths: △data source technology accumulated over 36 years △AX (AI Transformation) empirical data △200,000 customer assets △and an open AI transformation (AX) standard architecture.
Hancom's AI commercialization achievements are also continuing. It is also securing profitability by putting forward an AX strategy targeting existing 200,000 customers. Hancom's non-consolidated revenue in 2025 recorded an all-time high of 175.3 billion won, a 10.2% increase compared to the previous year. In particular, AI solutions accounted for 54.6% of the total revenue increase of 16.2 billion won. The portion of AI revenue in non-consolidated revenue for the first quarter of this year also increased to 11.21% from 0.04% in the same period last year. Hancom forecasts that the proportion of AI revenue will exceed half by 2027 at the latest.
“Hancom is not a 'company preparing for AI' but a company already making money with AI,” Kim emphasized.
It will also speed up its targeting of the global market. As Europe accounts for 34.2% of the sovereign AI market, ranking first in the world, Europe, where demand for Sovereign Agentic OS is the largest, was chosen as the first target. Hancom revealed that it is currently ahead of signing memorandums of understanding (MOUs) with three local European partners in countries such as Poland and Central Europe.
For global expansion, it will change its company name from 'Hangul and Computer' to 'HANCOM'. It plans to hold an extraordinary general meeting of shareholders on July 1 to go through the voting procedures for the company name change proposal.
In addition, it has decided to end the annual package releases, with 'Hancom Office 2024' being the last. As AI technology changes continue rapidly, Hancom Office plans to evolve into a cloud-based platform form where AI function advancements are reflected in real time.
“The name Hangul and Computer was a great starting point that created the standard for Korean document processing, but now the area Hancom handles has expanded beyond documents to data, beyond computers to AI agents, and beyond Korea to global,” Kim expressed her ambition. She added, “As a Sovereign Agentic OS company that provides complete integration of data sovereignty and AI execution environments, we will vigorously open Hancom's new 36 years.”
